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Rocks Hill
Frittenden
Above Google image, June 2019, best I can get so far of what is now
called Orange Tree Cottage. Local photography need here please. |
Above map, 1906 showing the "Cricketers"
at Cranbrook, bottom square and the location of the "Orange Tree" top
square. |
I am not yet totally sure whether this is or was a pub, but the name
sounds like it should have been, but I have found
the following passages related to it below:-
Today (2017) there is still a premises in the village called "Orange Tree
Cottage." I am informed that it sold for £570,000 in 2007.
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The Sussex Weekly Advertiser or Lewes and Brighthemston Journal, Monday 30 August 1819.
Valuable Freehold Brewery, Inns, and Public Houses, Farms and Lands,
situated in Cranbrook, Frittenden, and Staplehurst, in Kent; and
Leasehold Public House, in Wadhurst, Sussex.
To be sold by auction by Mr. Jeremiah Pethurst, at the "George Inn," Cranbrook, on Tuesday the 31st day of August next, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, (by order of the assignees of Jessie Dobell, a Bankrupt, and
with the consent of the Mortgages) subject to such conditions of sale as
will be then produced, in Seven Lots, as follows.
Lot 4.
All that freehold Messuage or Tenement, (lately used as a public house
and called the "Orange Tree" with the stable, buildings, and several
pieces or parcels of arable, meadow, and pasture land, containing by
estimation ten acres, more or less, desirable situated in the parish of
Frittenden, adjoining the turnpike road leading from Maidstone to
Cranbrook, and now in the occupation of William Croft, and of the
Assignees of the said Jessie Dobell.
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Local News on this day 13th February 1849.
On Thursday 8th February, Mr Penkivil, a surgeon of Staplehurst,
amputated the thigh of William Hinckley at the "Orange Tree," Frittenden,
as he was suffering from "extensive disease" of the knee joint. The
patient was put under the influence of chloroform, which rendered him
insensible to the slightest pain. When the effects of the chloroform has
passed off, he enquired if the operation had been performed, and was
much surprised on being informed it was. No unfavourable symptoms were
reported, and the patient told all his friends that he neither knew or
felt anything of the operation.
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South Eastern Gazette. Tuesday 08 January 1856.
Wilson V. Meopham.
J. E. Wilson, Esq., as agent, preferred a complaint against William
Meopham, tenant of a cottage belonging to A. L. Wollaston, Esq., situate
at the "Orange Tree," Frittenden, for fraudulently removing his
household effects to avoid a distress for rent. The defendant was a
weekly Tenant at 2s. a week, and had not paid any rent for 30 weeks. A
bailiff was sent to make a distress, who only affected an entrance into
the cottage after close watching and diligence, when he found the place
destitute furniture and effects, save a few old pans, pots, and an old
hat. The intention of the complainant by these proceedings was to
recover double the value of the effects removed, but he being unprepared
with evidence of what effects have been taken away, he withdrew the
complaint, and will seek his remedy in the county court. |
LICENSEE LIST
CROFT William 1819+
WEST Edward 1841+
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